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Living Room / nintendo wii

« on: April 05, 2007, 07:48 PM »

just a little note to say dc.com works fine from the wii browser... but damn tedious without a keyboard ;-)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / TOOL fans unite

« on: March 30, 2007, 10:45 PM »

Okay, everybody that likes TOOL, let me know. I have this idea that a lot of us programmer types dig bands like nine inch nails and tool, and after a supergreat concert, I'd really like to try and promote a local upcoming band, if it's okay with you people

http://www.boilmusic.com - I can probably arrange a few giveaways for the interested.

PS: hope this kind of 'advertising' is okay. I'm purely a fan of the band. I think the drummer of DIE, one of my friends, know the guys from BOIL... so I'm not 100% partial. And hey, that was a commercial by itself.

Sorry

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General Software Discussion / ThunderBird users, read here

« on: February 23, 2007, 04:30 AM »

Hey!

In my hunt for anti-spam, I've decided to give ThunderBird a try at the museum I help out. Before I do so, I'd like to know if any of you have experiences with having a lot of mails in it? Currently, one of the people there has Outlook Express mailboxes of a gig or more, and I wonder if ThunderBird can import that, work with it, and still be reasonably fast?

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Living Room / physmo: I want!

« on: February 10, 2007, 06:18 AM »

This game looks pretty sweet, can't wait for it to be released!

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Living Room / Accesspoint and/or router - help!

« on: February 05, 2007, 04:01 AM »

Okay, so I'm getting tired of having a long RJ45 cable lying all over, for my girlfriends laptop. It feels especially stupid with all this clutter as her laptop has built-in wlan. I borrowed an old access-point from a friend, but it's too unstable, so I'm looking for something decent.

And this is where I get frustrated - there's a myriad of different products

My base requirement is a stable accesspoint of at least 54mbps, able to cover a 50m² apartment without signal strength dropping (the does mean handling a single wall splitting the bedroom and living room). WPA-PSK/WPA-2 are also required.

A four-port built-in 100mbit switch would also be nice, so I can get rid of my current switch and save a bit on clutter and power requirements. I'd rather have no built-in switch than something retarded that only runs ~50mbit even though it's wired.

I think it should be possible to find something that meets these requirements, but I haven't really been too successful - there's always been something wrong with the products I've found, like reviews indicating retarded signal strength or flaky connection

It would be even nicer if I could find a device that has routing, too - but then my requirements probably become too demanding: I need PPPoA support (which only seems to be available for a few devices?) and a built-in modem, since my current solution is a combined router/modem (ZyXel prestige 650) - and I want as few devices as possible.

Help?

EDIT: forgot to mention that I have ADSL. Currently 4096/512, will get upgraded to 8092/512 in March - so a router/modem should be able to handle that high speeds and be stable.

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Living Room / Alternative way to play music

« on: January 20, 2007, 04:55 PM »

This is pretty cool

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General Software Discussion / Singing the anti-spam blues

« on: January 15, 2007, 05:33 PM »

I've been using the Bayes IT Filter plugin for The Bat for some months, and after som training it gave pretty nice results. After a windows reinstall, however, it seems to have forgotten all it's training, even though I pointed it at the old database files. It also has a habit of locking up every once in a while, using 100% CPU, and then I have to shut down The Bat.

So, what are the alternatives? I prefer something that plugs in nicely, as I like having the ability to manually classify mails as ham/spam (after all, this did work pretty well for the Bayes filter).

I also need to find a spam solution for my second workplace, where they use Outlook Express on all the boxes (changing email client is an option, but they don't adapt well to software changes, so I'd prefer staying with OE). Again, preferably something that plugs in, I'd hate having to run Yet Another Service (TM).

However, at least for the workplace, some proxy solution could work - I have a linux server there. I'd prefer not having to do per-host configuration, although adding something static to each client (ie, pointing it to the anti-spam proxy) would be okay.

Shamurai suggested on IRC that I should check out http://www.spamato.net/ which does sound nifty, but it's JAVA - and I'd really like to avoid that if possible.

So... what do I do?

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Living Room / Any creative/crazy musicians around?

« on: January 11, 2007, 04:01 AM »

I just got a crazy idea for a cute little project (screensaver/intro kind of thing), and I need some music for it...

So, I was thinking, there must be somebody on DC doing music. And perhaps even somebody doing something chiptune-ish in .xm format. Now, the crazy part: Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here - the chiptune version. Anybody up for the task?

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Living Room / Insane DIY water cooling

« on: January 06, 2007, 09:48 AM »

This is probably the most comprehensive watercooling I've seen yet



(do check the link above, the real product is much better than his mockup sketch )

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General Software Discussion / disk/filesystem benchmarking

« on: January 05, 2007, 05:17 AM »

Hey everybody,

finally scraped some cash together and got me a shining new disk: a 74GB Raptor drive. Of course I now want to benchmark the drive, and I don't really know which non-pay tools are any good? I know there's a free lite version of SiSoft Sandra, but nothing happens when I try to launch it

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Living Room / Public transport, anno 2007

« on: January 02, 2007, 09:51 AM »

I think mouser should appreciate this one

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Living Room / growing your own...

« on: December 06, 2006, 07:27 PM »

FURNITURE!


http://www.grown-furniture.co.uk/

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Living Room / MS paint sucks... but artists don't.

« on: December 03, 2006, 04:26 PM »

This rocks...


...and the music in the background is Nine Inch Nails - bonus

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Living Room / flashgame: pong-like anger/frustration booster

« on: November 13, 2006, 05:42 PM »

http://www.zanorg.co...hiants/doublejeu.htm

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Living Room / XBOX360: one HOT console

« on: November 03, 2006, 03:48 AM »

This image talks for itself, methinks


Cook An Egg on a Xbox 360!

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Living Room / Zen Bondage: a game that isn't kinky

« on: October 30, 2006, 07:51 AM »

While browsing http://pouet.net the other day, I stumbled upon "Zen Bondage". With a name like that, I just had to check it out . The concept is pretty simple: you have a rope covered in paint, and have to cover the entire object by, well, bondaging it. This can get pretty tricky!


http://www.pouet.net...prod.php?which=20938

Note that this is a demoscene kinda thing, so it isn't a fully finished game - for instance you don't "win" when you get 100% coverage, you just have to hit escape and select quit, and go on to the next object.

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Living Room / More cool multi-touch intuitive screen stuff

« on: October 30, 2006, 07:47 AM »

Pretty neat stuff - dunno if it'd be universally usable though, some things require more precision than your big, fat fingers can give . I watched this without sound, so I have no idea what he's talking (and gesticulating wildly) about - I just enjoyed the show


http://ted.com/tedta...n&flashEnabled=1

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Living Room / A whole new world...

« on: October 18, 2006, 02:01 AM »

of pain. And horror. And tearing your ears off.

It's the last thing anyone could want for Christmas.

http://www.news.com....0041-5006002,00.html

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Living Room / Super up your iPod!

« on: October 07, 2006, 07:50 AM »

I personally think iPods suck, but this is fun


http://www.command-t...05/03/13/ipod-super/

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Living Room / Nifty wooden computer cases

« on: October 01, 2006, 11:57 AM »

Got this from slashdot, so the site will probably soon be unavailable for a bit

I usually hate fancy computer cases, but some of these look pretty good IMHO: http://suissacomputers.com/

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fSekrit / Beta: fSekrit 1.3 beta thread

« on: September 18, 2006, 02:51 AM »

Believe it or not, I'm still working on fSekrit

I've set the release schedule for v1.3 at my birthday, October 15th. But I already have a beta version ready, for those that are interested (I suspect AbteriX will be, since I've added read-only notes support ).

So far:
BETA1:

• added:  read-only notes, finally
• bugfix: changing key on unsaved document would crash
• bugfix: saving an empty document would crash

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Living Room / Just HOW do you tie a *censor* tie?

« on: September 17, 2006, 10:52 AM »

Okay.

So, the other day, following my girlfriend around town like a zombie while she was shopping for shoes, I got a free tie voucher, and just for fun I went to whatever shop and traded it for a free silk tie.

Today I tried tying the damn thing, just for fun. Oh my what a mistake that was.  . It's been a while since I've been that close to smashing up things. I mean, it seems physically, mathematically and logically IMPOSSIBLE to do.

I've googled around, looked at arcane drawings, and even got a mind-numbing video link from srikat in the donationcoder IRC channel.

About the most sane explanation was one of my friends, who wrote "You take a möbius strip and fold the ends according to Heissenberg's equations, until you have an abstract plane, which you can then put around your neck".

Argh. Good thing I'm not a corporate slave yet.

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Living Room / Show us your (physical) desktop

« on: September 16, 2006, 11:19 AM »

Couldn't find a similar thread with the search feature, nor the first five pages of topics here in Living Room, so I decided to make a new thread. Here goes! (oh, theres's another thread alright, but not about physical desktop).


Two 17" TFTs running 1280x1024 - an acer al1722 and an al1715. The thing in the back is a

Ti-83 calculator, 18-in-1 card reader and 3-port USB hub, 80gig seagate, icybox usb2/firewire enclosure with 120gig disk, K750i cellphone ontop of a VIM "cheat sheet", a box of CD-Rs and a box of DVD-Rs.

On top of the workstation to the left is a (defunct ) netgear wlan access point, and ontop of the testbox on thje right is a ZyXEL ADSL modem/router and an 8port 100mbit switch.


The machines... ASUS A8N SLI Premium (for stability & passively cooled chipset, not for SLI), AMD64x2 4400/2.21GHz, 4x512MB Corsair ram, Plextor PX-716A DVD burner, liteon SHD-16P1S DVD reader, 2x160gb maxtor sata in raid/mirror + a 80gig maxtor ide for "scratch" use, GeForce6600/256 PCI-e.

The test-machine is a P2-MMX@350MHz with 64 megs of ram, usually a voodoo3 PCI (but atm "whatever" I had lying around), Intel eepro 100 (with flashable rom!), a promise fasttrack tx133 to support large drives, and two drive bays. Machine is pretty defunct at the moment, though

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fSekrit / fSekrit 1.2 done!

« on: September 14, 2006, 10:15 AM »

As topic states, 1.2 is done - now you'll just have to wait for mouser to update the download page etc

Available here: http://fsekrit.donationcoder.com/

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fSekrit / Beta: fSekrit 1.2 needs bashing!

« on: September 12, 2006, 09:24 AM »

Updated: beta 2

For those interested, here's a beta of v1.2. I'd like you to bash this in every possible way, and if you can make it crash please do tell me. Do *anything* you can to play tricks on the executable.

This is a pretty good indication of what 1.2 will bring. The text import and export aren't finished yet though, in the beta they both work on c:\stream.txt - final version will of course have a the usual pick-a-file dialog.

Post any findings, suggestions, and hate mails here.

PS: I haven't had any problems on my own box, but this is *BETA* - don't do do anything without backups.